Fear & Wonder 1: The Beating City (November 11, 2017)

Hernan Diaz Alonso welcomes the presenters and audience to Fear & Wonder: an expedition through the landscapes of fiction, directed by Liam Young, coordinator...

James Benning: Deseret (February 11, 1998)

Ed Dimendberg introduces filmmaker James Benning. Before screening his 1995 movie “Deseret,” Benning briefly discusses how he compiled 93 sentences from the New York...

Wim Wenders (December 1, 1999) Part 1 of 2

Olivier Touraine introduces the lecture as the last of the Butterfly series. He recounts his experience working for Jean Nouvel, and Wender’s influence on...

P. J. Letofsky & Michael Stock:Solaris (November 7, 2017)

As an introduction to a screening of Andrei Tarkovsky’s Solaris (1972), Michael Stock introduces P. J. Letofsky, producer of the documentary Tarkovksy: Time Within...

Video chronologies panel discussion (October 19, 1996)

The Lannan Foundation in collaboration with Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions hosts a panel discussion on video art at SCI-Arc. Art Historian and USC professor David...

Peter Wollen (October 4, 1989)

Peter Wollen is introduced by Neil Denari, who notes Wollen’s teaching in the film and television department at UCLA, his career as a filmmaker...

Liam Young: Tomorrows thoughts today & unknown fields division (October 28, 2015)

Liam Young characterizes his talk as "a tour through a city that might look like a fiction, but is hiding everywhere in plain sight,"...

Rick Carter & Tom Wiscombe: Avatar (February 6, 2018)

Michael Stock introduces this installment of the SCI-Arc Cinema Series, featuring a screening of James Cameron’s Avatar (2009) preceded by a conversation with its...

Jan Harlan & Michael Stock: The Shining (October 3, 2017)

Tom Wiscombe welcomes the audience to the inaugural screening of the SCI-Arc Cinema Series, featuring Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining (1980), and introduces special guest...